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April 15, 2021 Targets to help benefit one crore farmers Non-governmental organisation (NGO) The /Nudge Foundation has launched a competition for start-ups, Cisco Agri Challenge (CAC), as part of its efforts to try and reach agri-tech solutions to one crore farmers in the country. The/Nudge Foundation is holding CAC in partnership with US multinational technology firm Cisco System and the Office of the Principal Scientific Advisor to the Government of India. Sudha Srinivasan, CEO, The/Nudge ...

Reuters During Covid-19 last year, Amazon had announced an initiative - Local shops on Amazon, which has been adopted by more than 50,000 retailers in 450 cities across India. Amazon has announced a $250 million fund for India with the aim to focus on enabling SME digitisation, agriculture technology and medical technology. The announcement came at the tech giant’s second Smbhav event. Andy Jassy, CEO, Amazon Web Services, said, “Small and medium-sized businesses are often the engine and t...

Puratos joins EIT Food in FoodSparks to foster the next generation of agrifood innovators FoodSparks – a seed fund tailored to support the most promising European early-stage enterprises – has been set up by EIT Food and capital fund manager PeakBridge, along with investors like Puratos, Givaudan and Stockholm-based investment firm Gullspång Re:foodiary, among others. The FoodSparks fund will invest up to €30m over a span of up to four years in the most promis...

Ankur Capital Dialogues to steer conversation around tech’s role in fighting climate change 0 claps Share on India is the worlds second-largest aquaculture producer and is among the top four exporters of shrimp to the US, Japan and Europe, as per the World Wide Fund. Over the years, a prolific aquatic value chain has shored up the country’s economy. However, this value chain has suffered at the hands of humans too often as climate change continues to endanger the ecological balance of the p...

High-tech farms in Singapore ensure more varieties of food stay on the table | Video Singapore 05 Apr 2021 12:00AM) Farms in Singapore are going high-tech in an effort to be more sustainable and to ensure food security as Singapore looks to produce 30 per cent of its food by 2030. Gwyneth Teo with this weeks Spotlight. Tagged Topics

Tay Cities Deal: Acceleration of Angus project funding could be agreed this week Updated: March 17, 2021, 8:15 am © D C Thomson The Tay Cities Deal was signed in December 2020. Councillors in Angus are set to pave the way for key Tay Cities Deal project funding to be accelerated this week. A full Angus Council on Thursday will see councillors discuss three upcoming projects – the Mercury drone scheme, the Centre of Agri Tech and Sustainable Innovation (Casi) and rural digital broadband – ...

“Building an X$B company for sure”.  The value of that ‘X’ can only be limited by his own imagination. Or perhaps, his company’s ability to “move fast”. After spending 16 years in FMCG and retail, having managed multiple categories at companies like Godrej Agrovet, HyperCITY Retail, Aditya Birla Retail, SPAR, Future Group, and Grofers, Saurabh is quite the industry veteran when it comes to the food and grocery business.  His journey with food and agri commodities, in fact, ...

New Delhi [India], March 10 (ANI/PRNewswire): Joining in India Inc's drive for digital transformation, SCUTIGER is geared to make its mark as the newly-launched disruptor in the fast-evolving landscape of tech-led business model innovation.

Arlington, Va., March 9, 2021 /3BL Media/  – As investor interest coalesces around the potential of emerging agricultural technology (‘agri-tech’) to boost the sustainability of global food systems, a pioneering initiative from The Nature Conservancy (TNC) aims to encourage cross-sector commitment to innovations that target the specific issue of soil health. TNC has commenced investments in a series of emerging agri-tech solutions that have the potential to accelerate adoption of regene...

Explore Now MUMBAI: Startups-focused alternate financing platform Trifecta Capital, which has already invested Rs 900 crore across 38 companies, has closed its second fund, raising Rs 1,025 crore. Since the Rs 1,025-crore Trifecta venture debt fund-II has a provision to recycle capital, the fund will have an investible corpus of up to Rs 2,560 crore, the company said on Friday. Across the two debt funds, Trifecta has invested around Rs 2,000 crore in 72 early growth and growth stage startups s...